Re: [gentoo-dev] Committing straight to stable

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:59:14 +0200 foser <foser@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:29 +0100, Paul Waring wrote:
| > Why not have a three strike rule - anyone who commits something
| > straight to stable 3 times in a given period (say 6 months) has
| > their CVS access revoked.
| 
| It's not California here. You completely ignore the fact that some
| people commit more than others and as such are more likely to trip
| over such a rule anyway and the people who do commit a lot are usually
| the same people you don't want to revoke the access from.

Actually, *most* of the regular high volume committers tend to get it
right, since they're experienced enough to know exactly what they're
doing and get everything right without even needing to think about it.
Of course, there's the occasional notable exception who regularly screws
stuff up and just plain doesn't care.

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